A U.S. Navy unit apologized on Saturday for tweets defending military women, which it sent in response to the Fox News presenter Tucker Carlson
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While social media users discussed the controversy surrounding Carlson’s comments, the official Navy Expeditionary Force II account tweeted in response to a commentator, “Come back when you’ve served and you’re pregnant,” according to USA Today.
The tweet was deleted, along with another supporter of US Master Gunnery Sgt. Scott Stalker, who had denounced Carlson’s comments.
“We are human and confused,” posted the unit. “Our intention was to speak for the Marines and it was an effort to support them. They are a crucial part of our body and we need them to know that. We will adjust the fire and ensure maximum professionalism in our tweets. “
“We moved away from our brand and realized that,” he added in a follow-up tweet. “Our standard practices will be in place and you can count on us to correct our mistake going forward.”
We are human and we are confused. Our intention was to speak for the Marines and it was an effort to support them. They are a crucial part of our body and we need them to know that. We will adjust the fire and ensure maximum professionalism in our tweets.
– II MEF Information Group (@iimigofficial) March 13, 2021
We stepped away from our brand and realized that. Our standard practices will be in place and you can count on us to correct our mistake in the future.
– II MEF Information Group (@iimigofficial) March 13, 2021
Carlson faced reaction of several military leaders after attacking the Department of Defense last week for their new efforts to accommodate women in the armed forces, including maternity flight coveralls and allowing more hairstyles under official hygiene standards.
“So, we have new hair styles and maternity flight coveralls. Pregnant women will fight our wars. It is a mockery of the US military, ”said Carlson on his prime-time program.
“As China’s military becomes more masculine as it sets up the largest navy in the world, our military needs to become as Joe Biden
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Pentagon press secretary John Kirby said Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin
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“What we are absolutely not going to do is take personal advice from a talk show host or the Chinese military, and maybe these people feel they have something to prove, that’s their responsibility,” Kirby told reporters.
The Fox News host later responded to criticism by calling “generals awake”.
“We were almost shaken. So we realized that if the agreed generals treated us the way they treated the Taliban, we will be fine. Twenty years later, the Taliban is still here,” said Carlson on Friday.
Sen. Ted Cruz
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“This show is in danger of politicizing the military after several centuries of efforts to keep military officers out of internal affairs, undermining civil-military relations by having the military take sides in a contentious cultural dispute and the perception that leaders The military is happily arming the institution against the political critics of the current administration, ”said Cruz.
“This type of behavior, while perhaps typical in a military-controlled Third World country, is completely unacceptable in the United States of America,” added the Texas senator.